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‘Govt to move against anti-state elements’
Firdous Ashiq Awan says action will be taken against anti-state elements challenging country's sovereignty.
India's offer for joint birth control was rejected by Pakistan. PHOTO: APP
QUETTA: The government will take strict action against anti-state elements who are challenging the country’s sovereignty, federal Minister for Population Welfare Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Wednesday. Defending the interior minister’s statement about the use of force in Balochistan, she urged the people not to be scared of such an action and said that the media had projected Rehman Malik’s statement from a “different angle”.
“Baloch people are not agents of RAW (Indian intelligence agency). We will not deny them flood relief and other help,” she said, adding: “The federal government will not abandon Balochistan and will utilise all available resources to address the province’s problems,” she said, adding that she had come to express solidarity with the local people and to distribute relief goods.
“The population in the 13 worst-affected districts is scattered, increasing the urgency to accelerate relief efforts. The government will not let a sense of deprivation prevail in Balochistan,” she said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 16th, 2010.
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Insted of talking about the Military operations and use of force in Balochistan, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan better improve her own Ministry, where too many things are too wrong.
Some areas where she can work are:
1. Lower the population growth through by motivation and medication and not through Military Operation.
2. Provide medicines at the RHS(A) centres and Family Welfare Centres. Medicines are purchased on Papers and consumed on Papers.
3. Her Ministry is discriminating against lady doctors and specially in Balochistan, where no lady doctor has been promoted in last twenty years.
4. FWWs are unlicened to prescribe and issue medicines, however major medicines are shown to have been issued by these unlicenced individuals.
5. There are 500 male motivators in Balochistan, however not a single male has ever been motivated including the motivators themselves to under go Vasectomy.
6. Pakistan was a country of 34 million people in 1951, including the then East Pakistan and now Bangladesh. By 2010, the population had risen to almost 180 million. Pakistan added 150 million Pakistanis in just five decades.
7. At present, there are confirmed estimates that 70 percent of the Pakistani population is living either under, on or just above the poverty line and make two or less dollars a day.Forth-nine percent of the population is living absolutely below the poverty line.
DR FIRDOUS DO YOU HAVE TIME AND POTENTIAL TO SEE YOUR OWN MINISTRY. SEE what is happening there and how can you improve it. Recommend
Democracy is not only the choice but a right of people of Pakistan. There are elements who have been working to destabilize this system and they must be dealt strictly to let the system run.Recommend
but if they dont want to be with pakistan how can u make them do just that forcefully.. u need to initiate confidence building instead of killing their men :(Recommend
I am serving in population Welfare Department and I totally agree with what has been written by @Asmat Jamal. Its is department which is run like a personal fiefdom. The bureaucracy running the department is involved in corruption and nepotism. Medicines does not reach outlets and are paper purchased and paper consumed. The paramedics are made to sign the issue of medicines by the District Population Officers. Legally neither the DPO can issue medicines nor can they be issued by the self created Paramedics of this department as they are not recognised by nursing consul. This is theft of millions upon millions of rupees every year for the last three decades.
Can some one do some thing to put this right.Recommend